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Definitions for Ache

[1] to have or suffer a continuous, dull pain: His whole body ached.
[2] to feel great sympathy, pity, or the like: Her heart ached for the starving animals.
[3] to feel eager; yearn; long: She ached to be the champion. He's just aching to get even.
[4] a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).
[5] to feel, suffer, or be the source of a continuous dull pain
[6] to suffer mental anguish
[7] a continuous dull pain

Words related to Ache

soreness, twinge, pang, misery, anguish, spasm, throb, throe, suffering, hurt, smarting, pounding, throbbing, pound, pain, suffer, smart

Words nearby Ache

achalasia, achan, acharya, achates, achaz, ache, achebe, achebe, chinua, acheilary, acheilia, acheiria

Origin of Ache

before 900; (v.) Middle English aken, Old English acan; perhaps metaphoric use of earlier unattested sense “drive, impel” (compare Old Norse aka, cognate with Latin agere, Greek ágein ); (noun) derivative of the v.

Word origin for Ache

Old English ācan (vb), æce (n), Middle English aken (vb), ache (n). Compare bake , batch

Synonyms for Ache

anguish, misery, pang, soreness, spasm, twinge, hurt, pounding, smarting, suffering, throb, throbbing, throe